Quote:
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – By Oliver Wendell
Once there lived a youngster who is shrewd enough to deceive parents to go and watch movies with friends. He is intelligent and always praised by his gang of nerdy friends. He feels safe in his small little environment and didn’t care enough about others. When they were playing cricket in one of their friend’s backyard, this guy named kuppan hit the ball strong to bang the neighbors head. Instead of feeling sorry, he laughed heavily. Immediately, those neighbors stand in front of his home, complaining about his behavior. kuppan’s parents were also worried about him as the guy’s intelligence grows wilder without paving any good character.
So, they decided to put him in a hostel to gain some good character. He initially was worried about leaving his group where he spends most of the time. He hated his parents and that was shown among his peers with new classmates. He poked every one including teachers so that he planned in such a way to return home back. But his parent never turned back despite his arrogance shown to them. He always likes to be alone in the dark. In the study group, he tends to complete the syllabus faster than others. He finds a calm place at the corner of the building. He pretends to join the group as if he was studying while the group returns to dinner.
Once he happened to see the girl while being alone. He finds her with her friends. He asked himself why always good pretty girls walk with other dark girls. He always wanted to talk to her but one way or other opportunity got waded away due to multiple factors. The school also has a strict policy of not allowing boys to talk to girls. This guy when he knows s such things exist, always tries to experiment with his own witty things. Once he tried to grab the wall of his biology lab. He submitted the record by getting a note as no one will help because of his rude nature. He pretends to pass by her class to look at her. But the rude guys in hostel belong to the same class where his girl studies. These guys mock him by calling his name differently and made fun of his nerdy character.
He cannot handle them by strength so he traps them using his intelligence. He uses the complain box wisely by posting anonymous letters about all misdoings in the hostel. He observes their activities which is against school policies of using cell phones, gutkha and point their names along with some evidence. He admires teachers action by getting to observe his enemies bruises. But they remain clueless about how teachers are finding their stuff.
One day when a teacher asks to get a note from some girl as he tends to be the class leader, doing many monitoring activities like that. He goes and says that name and surprisingly she stood up. He stood for seconds wordless but other boys look him weird as he was an arrogant witty bastard to them. He got the note by being slippery and left the class with multiple questions in his mind.
As he left he opens the note and found the girls handwriting was very pleasant to know her name sangamaselvi, just opposite to his way of writing. He writes the exam made the teach but the paper looks hard for the teacher to read. But there was full of content as such in the book but on the contrary, the girl’s handwriting was so pretty, exactly like her, but hardly found no content in the exam paper. Later, he enquired about the girl in his hostel and found she was a day scholar.
As the school was very strict with girls and boys interaction, he set up a story to his bedmate. He convinces him by saying that he got some relations to visit. So he asked his friend to get out of the school premises. He had some money when his father gave him at his last visit. He took it with a packet of biscuit to look at the girl’s house.
To be casual he was eating casually but with full tense inside him. The first time he had much confusion what he was doing but convinced to get a bus to the girls stop. It was very lucky for him that the girl was standing at a Khirana shop near the bus stop. He almost peed in his pants. She noticed him but did not give much attention.
She also knows about the secret spot of kuppan and always wondered why he stays in this little place? It was running in her mind immediately after she sees him. Again the boy was thinking what to do? when they returned to school the next morning, Somehow she is able to sense that the boy is wicked smart and she doesn’t hesitate to ask him. Those girls standing next to selvi laughed heavily at him. The boy was stunned as he was thinking that she doesn’t know anything about him.
It was very hard for him to go and talk to her after getting embarrassed before girls. Then he decided whatever it might be “I will go and talk to her and ask strongly about why she felt that he is wicked smart?”.
It took him by surprise where his intelligence got questioned by a girl who he secretly looks. He became speechless and was intrigued by her thoughts?. When he was about to ask her “what made her think like that?” school bell rang and everyone returned to their class. Selvi asked kuppan to join her on tomorrows lunch. She never intended to hurt him but somehow the scene became vulnerable.
The whole day he was thinking about that girl and was rehearsing in his mind to talk to her. He also though his superiority feeling might be the reason that he was laughing after his neighbors head got hurt badly by the cricket ball that day he did not eat anything as he was immersed in deep thought. He was upset so did not go to a school that day. He cleverly deceives the warden by saying that he had a fever. In his biology book, he once read that keeping big sized onion under one’s arm tend to raise the body temperature.
He creatively used that situation for his favor. He was thinking all day long about why he was behaving strangely after seeing her. Why the inner urge seems to be more intense towards her? He convinced himself by saying that it does not necessarily have to be love, but he felt a strong connection with this girl that cannot be evaded. As he also had no friends surrounding him he remains to be a thinker rather than a talker.
Exam season in the school began, so he found very hard to talk to her. Every girl around Selvi seems to be carrying books. He thought by mocking himself “these girls going to get married any way but why they are studying”?. He once tried to call her by action, but she didn’t give much attention which again poked him. All-day along except the test hours he was wandering around her class, Selvi knows he is smart and will manage test unlike her. so she signaled him to go away from there. Meanwhile, her friends were murmuring to them by looking at Kuppan. He again has to leave with a sense of disappointment.
It creates an unpleasant scene to Selvi, so she went to kuppan’s class before the second test begins (2 test in one day) and clearly states that she cannot talk since she has to study at least even pass the basics. Kuppan understands her frustration and asks if he can help. Although he wanted to be rude to ask her questions, the way she approaches immediately changed his perception. She replied that she doesn’t want any help again hurting kuppan’s softness. He was slowly turning to be soothing after the entry of Selvi’s thought to him, which he hardly recognizes. On the other hand, he was turning to be sensitive by allowing himself to tolerate such girl’s action.
Test results announced in front of the assembly and kuppan’s was named on top among 3 candidates to receive a medal from the principal. Selvi was happy inside but did not show it to the outer world. When kuppan’s name was called at the podium she clapped intensely. She expected him to talk on that day and waited all along, even left her daily bus to talk to him. She left a message to one of her hostel friends to try and talk to him. But kuppan turned down her offer out of sheer ego. At the end of the day, she was happy for him to congratulate, but kuppan misunderstood as this talk was just out of his popular act of receiving medal.
Kuppan was not able to ignore her for a long time and mustered some courage to ask her why she called him wicked smart? Since it really hurts his ego. Then he came to her lunch spot but he was hesitant as there were many girls. Kuppan was hiding so long to get her isolated but she was laughing and looks like sharing some moments with her friends. The cool breeze glazed her hair making it wave, kuppan in the name of waiting started admiring her laugh, thereby watching every moment deeply. Such moments got deeply etched in his mind.
He started falling for her without much recognizing what he was doing. Meanwhile, another girl from Selvi’s gang noted his presence and indicated. She immediately looked at him but he became frightened and started to leave that place. But she called him by name kuppan for the first time. Though his friends always mock at his name, for the first time his name started to hear it like a good thing. He just heard the sound without even looking back. Like a bharati’s song “inba then vanthu payuthu kaathinile”
The school has an annual day function. kuppan was a pet to his Tamil teacher because of his top spot in the class. He got a role in the play of Mahabharata as opposite to Pandava group as dushasan. He was rehearsing for the play one day. This scene of playing dice to lose Draupadi by Pandavas was at play. His role was to just laugh heavily thereby removing the saree of Draupadi.
With much less dialogue and more intense expression when he was practicing that act in play suddenly the saree roll on the top of the roof fell on him. There was a heavy laugh in the auditorium and found Selvi at the corner. She was laughing at him out of her real love but the guy again misunderstood it. That day he pulled her back and got into the corner of the building. He hurts her by pulling hand, but felt as if touching peacock feathers.
By grabbing her hands he asks some harsh questions about her poor grades and self praised himself that there is no need to laugh in public. He also commented rudely about her prettiness. Despite her hand was getting hurt he was holding it tight. He also asked her why was she thinking of him as a wicked person? The gentleness of Selvi got hurt. But she remains cool to reply that even though he seems to be wicked she really liked some of his acts.
Unlike others she found him unique but how his acts of intelligence look funny. She also knows that someday she thought she will remove such wickedness by becoming friends. But replied from this moment that never going to happen. You carry on with your work of becoming a top-class student, I would be a normal girl by accepting whatever comes on my way.
There ends the initial infatuation of a boy who understands what it takes to love more than intelligence. He just learned in a hard way how to be sensitive to others concern which can never be learned in any book or even from his own surroundings but has to undergo the process of becoming vulnerable to others eyes.
Moral:
There is nothing greater in this world than experiencing the true warmth of love.
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